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Dr Rachael Harkes

@latemedievalist.bsky.social

Historian | postdoc @mappingthemarch.bsky.social | Interested in processes of decision-making, borders, networks, and digital humanities | Canadian in the UK | she/her

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEW from me... On 25 Sept I'll be giving a @royalhistsoc.org public lecture at the Institute of Historical Research in London. It'll be about rights of way and access to the countryside since the 1940s - all welcome, do come and have a listen! Booking below. 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rhs-lectur...

RHS Lecture: 'In All Our Footsteps?' with Professor Glen O'Hara IN PERSON

'In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act' at the IHR

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Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · last mo.

I am very excited to confirm that RGB images of the Hereford Gospels are now available online under Creative Commons license, thanks to the stellar work of Dr Bill Endres: osf.io/pswd5/overview

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · last mo.

Thanks to all sending messages of support as me and my colleagues in Humanities and Social Sciences at Exeter face being made redundant in September. I'll be back here once it's less hot & I can think. Please consider signing & sharing this petition: www.change.org/p/stop-redun... #EarlyModern 🗃️

Sign the Petition

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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S.C. Kaplan @medievallitura.bsky.social · last mo.

Hey folks, especially my fellow academics! If you need #editing - line, developmental, formatting, and/or proofreading - my books are very open for the next several months, so now is a great time to hit me up. See www.sckaplan.com/select-portf... for a sample of past clients.

Select Portfolio — S.C. Kaplan Editing

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Dr Richard Asquith @richardasquith.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Deep gratitude to the archivists at @thelondonarchives.bsky.social who tracked down documents for me based on an obsolete reference in a 100y/o book - it was particularly satisfying and evocative to see the “deed of the king’s grant by his green seal” described in a now-lost C15th church inventory 📜

A photograph of a medieval charter, with an elaborately decorated initial “H”. Attached is a largely complete great seal of green wax, showing the king sitting in majesty, affixed by a green and white twisted cord.

Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🗣️ Medievalists! 🏰 Check out this page, we’ve done a reconstruction the medieval chapel at Chester Castle! www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places... Please share widely! There’s loads of info and *lovely* images from the repertoire of medieval art - and also more reconstructions!

The Chester Castle Chapel Wall Paintings

The walls of the medieval chapel in the Agricola Tower at Chester Castle were richly painted around 1240 with scenes including miracles of the Virgin Mary and St Edward the Confessor. From the fragmen...

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

well this looks ruddy glorious for anyone with their second book underway ( @onslies.bsky.social 👀👀👀)

Anne Goldgar@annegoldgar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

CFP: Mid-career workshop for early modern British historians at USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Instutute Jan 2027. Applications due 31 July 2026.

Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🎉 Congratulations to Shaun McGuinness editor of Bangor Episcopal Acta, 1092–1306 & Rhys Kaminski-Jones, author of Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain 1707–1819 who are 2025 Francis Jones Prize co-winners! Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/An3d5PC @rhyskamjones.bsky.social @shaunmcguinness.bsky.social

Saima Nasar @saimanasar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m really pleased to see my article on “The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign” in the @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Many thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding this research. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The “Asian Mother and Baby Campaign”: Race, Healthcare, and Citizenship in late Twentieth-Century Britain | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core

The “Asian Mother and Baby Campaign”: Race, Healthcare, and Citizenship in late Twentieth-Century Britain - Volume 65

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Journal of British Studies @jbritishstudies.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢New article in JBS! 📗"The 'Asian Mother and Baby Campaign': Race, Healthcare, and Citizenship in late Twentieth-Century Britain," by Saima Nasar Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The “Asian Mother and Baby Campaign”: Race, Healthcare, and Citizenship in late Twentieth-Century Britain | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core

The “Asian Mother and Baby Campaign”: Race, Healthcare, and Citizenship in late Twentieth-Century Britain - Volume 65

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Journal of British Studies @jbritishstudies.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢New article in JBS! 📗"The Invention of the English Historic Town: The Place of Vernacular Architecture, ca. 1780-1850," by Rosemary Helen Sweet Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Invention of the English Historic Town: The Place of Vernacular Architecture, ca. 1780–1850 | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core

The Invention of the English Historic Town: The Place of Vernacular Architecture, ca. 1780–1850 - Volume 65

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Alice Raw @aliceraw.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#medievalsky 'Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis' is now open for registration. 17-18 September 2026, Pembroke College, Cambridge. Spaces are limited, so we request a short statement of interest. Sign up here: forms.gle/Lk5KcHovpTE8...

Conference poster. Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis. 17-18 September 2026. Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Request full accessible programme. Christian Liddy, Durham University, The politics of family values: what was “family” in late medieval London? Panel 1: Seamus Dwyer, University of Cambridge, Sodomite Bodies and the Written Word; Helen Carr, Queen Mary University London, ‘Pur Honneur Des Femmes’: Women and Warfare, The England/Scotland Border, 1296-1346; Lisa Demets, Universiteit Antwerpen, Chronicles and the Politics of Sexual Violence in Late Medieval Low Countries (Pre-recorded) Panel 2: Minne De Boodt and Chanelle Delameillieure, KU Leuven, A Common Language of Power? Negotiating Governance at Home and in the Polity of the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries; Rose Bramley, Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m not yours: The Political Significance of St Margaret of Antioch on the Seals of Bishop’s Lynn, ca. 1370-1420; Lucia Akard, University of York, Public or Clandestine: Sex Workers and Politics in Medieval Dijon Panel 3: Eleanor Pickford, University of Cambridge, Reading Utopia in Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies; Caitlin Coxon, Cardiff University
This tale is seyd for this conclusioun’: Suspended Endings as Political Provocation in The Legend of Good Women Panel 4: Grant Jones, Durham University, ‘Noble and Vigorous Men’: Chivalric Masculinity as Political Vocabulary in the Reign of Henry III, 1216-1272; Ella Foschia, University of Cambridge, Queenship and the Cult of Saints in the Kalmar Union: Female Power and Political Legitimacy; Movern French, Historic Environment Scotland, and Iain MacInnes, University of the Highlands and Islands, The King and the Countess: Edward III, Katherine Beaumont, and Gendered Accounts of the Second Scottish War of Independence Panel 5: Jelle Haemers, KU Leuven, Women and Political Contention in the Late Medieval Low Countries; Andrew Prescott, University of Glasgow, Women Petitioners and the 1381 Revolt. Sylvia Federico, Bates College, “With or Without Her Consent”: Rape as Discourse in the English Revolt of 1381

Iain MacInnes @iainmacinnesuhi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Very much looking forward to visiting Cambridge for the first time, and speaking at this exciting conference... #medievalsky

Alice Raw@aliceraw.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Marianne O'Doherty @marianneodoherty.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Please spread the word and forward to anyone I might be missing off this list! @antiquaries.bsky.social @bristolcms.bsky.social @memsunikent.bsky.social

Marianne O'Doherty @marianneodoherty.bsky.social · 2mo ago

OK #MedievalSky and #Skystorians: early career job klaxon! A post on my new project 'Strange Geographies: Spatial Imaginaries of Medieval Britain', 30 months (with poss. of extension). Details at jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... @royalhistsoc.org @memorients.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Illustrations, diagrams, and other non-topographical features on maps from the European Middle Ages and the Renaissance weren’t mere “decoration”, as old-fashioned map historians insist; they were part of what maps were for." Latest newsletter: medieval maps! buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

A brightly-coloured, richly-illustrated medieval world map on a vertical stand. The illustrations include kings in varied costumes, people fighting giant cranes, and multi-coloured islands.

Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 2mo ago

At Balliol, it’s the first time I’ll present my new research on Book Hunters, including Neil Ker and all. Hope it’s not the last time! www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...

Oliver Smithies Lecture

Professor Elaine Treharne (Oliver Smithies Visiting Lecturer) will deliver her second Oliver Smithies lecture entitled 'Medieval Manuscript Hunters and the Second World War

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Heneb: The Trust for Welsh Archaeology @henebtwa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

⚱️ Ydych chi erioed wedi dod o hyd i unrhyw wrthrychau archaeolegol hen a diddorol? Ydych chi erioed wedi meddwl tybed beth oedd y gwrthrychau hyn? Dyma’ch cyfle i ddarganfod yr atebion! ☕️ Ymunwch â ni am Fore Coffi Darganfyddiadau yn Swyddfa Heneb yn Llandeilo Dydd Iau 30 Gorffennaf 10.30 – 12.30

Dr Richard Asquith @richardasquith.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you’re interested in medieval parish churches, their #art, #architecture, and #history, this year’s Harlaxton #Medieval Symposium may be for you! 📆 Residential booking deadline is 19th June. More info here: harlaxtonmedievalsymposium.org/harlaxton-me... #MedievalSky #Skystorians

A photograph of Childrey church, set in a graveyard and against a blue sky.

Dr Rachael Harkes @latemedievalist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Really looking forward to speaking about parishes in the #WelshMarches at this year’s Harlaxton! Come join us - residential registration closes on 19 June. #MedievalSky 📚

Dr Richard Asquith@richardasquith.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Crowd Cymru @crowdcymru.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy International Archives Day 2026! Just popping this on again in case anyone missed the announcement last week … 😘 @araukie.bsky.social @archifaucymru.bsky.social #IAD2026 #IAW2026

Crowd Cymru wins the 2026 ARA Archive Volunteering Award — Archives & Records Association

‍‍Crowd Cymru has won the 2026 ARA Archive Volunteering Award. The judges said of this project: ‍“An amazing project that shows what can be done with ambition and gaining necessary funding. The proje...

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Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📜Call for paper: Reconsidering Fabliaux through the Lens of Digital Humanities, 17-19 June (Lyon, France) 📚abstract 250–300 words (Fren. or Engl.) 📆Deadline: 31 Dec. 26 📩Send your abstract to corinne.pierreville@univ-lyon3.fr 🔗 More about the Fabliaux project: tinyurl.com/89tnx6xe

Fabliaux

Le projet consiste en la création d’un corpus numérique de fabliaux français du Moyen Âge, au format XML-TEI, pérenne et interrogeable, hébergé sur la Base de Français Médiéval afin de favoriser les r...

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Mapping the March: Medieval Wales and England, c.1282-1550 @mappingthemarch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Applications are open for 2 Mortimer History Society Research Bursaries supporting MA/PhD research on the medieval Welsh March, Marcher lordships or the Mortimer family. Deadline for applying is June 30th. Click here for further details and to apply: mortimerhistorysociety.org.uk/society/bursary/

Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

An exciting new hybrid talk from @lauracforster.bsky.social on 9 June, exploring the Communard refugees who arrived in Britain following the defeat of the Paris Commune in May 1871. Find out more: sslh.org.uk/2026/05/29/e...

Event: Exile, affinity, and the afterlives of the Paris Commune in Britain

Dr Laura C. Forster (University of York) will deliver an online and in-person talk on Tuesday 9 June titled: “Exile, affinity, and the afterlives of the Paris Commune in Britain”, covering her rece…

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Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris @dhi-paris.fr · 2mo ago

📢 #CfP: “Failing Male Bodies. #Body, #Gender, and #Masculinities in the Medieval West (4th-15th Centuries)” 📍 GHIP, 28–29 January 2027 📅 Proposals should be sent before 1 July 2026, FR/EN/DE ➡️ More information: www.dhi-paris.fr/fr/... #Paris #DHIP

Tristan de Léonois, The wounded Lancelot, rescued by a knight. Partial reproduction of an illuminated manuscript from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, as described in Mandragore, accessed on May 25, 2026

Yorkist History Trust @yorkisthistory.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Yorkist History Trust is returning to @imc-leeds.bsky.social! We're running four sessions featuring new research on the 15th century, as well as having a bookstall in the Parkinson Court. See here for more info: yorkisthistorytrust.org/2026/05/28/l... #Medieval #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Leeds IMC 2026

The Trust On…Leeds IMC 2026 The Yorkist History Trust is delighted to be returning to the Leeds International Medieval Congress, Monday 6th – Thursday 9th July 2026. We will be hosting …

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 2mo ago

How do we enhance the engagement of history students in their degree programmes? A new article - 'Rethinking Engagement: Insights from UK History Departments' - bit.ly/4viEKru, by Sarah Jones and Simon Peplow offers discipline-specific proposals. Latest Open Access article in 'Transactions' 1/2

Front page of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society article: 'Rethinking Engagement: Insights from UK History Departments', by Sarah Jones and Simon Peplow.

Full abstract: 'This comment examines the shifting landscape of student engagement in UK history departments, drawing on research conducted at the universities of Bristol and Warwick. Moving beyond narrow definitions of engagement as attendance, the study explores the complex interplay of workload pressures, relationships and community, and the cultures and environments of learning that shape students’ everyday experiences. Student testimony highlights how financial precarity, mental‑health challenges and competing demands on their time profoundly influence how (and indeed if) they engage. At the same time, factors – ranging from staff/student interactions to seminar atmosphere and assessment design – are powerful determinants of whether students feel able and motivated to participate fully. While acknowledging the broader socio‑economic forces that constrain both staff and students, the comment proposes a set of principled, discipline‑specific approaches centred on reflection, communication, adaptability and compassion. It argues that, although no single solution can resolve the problem of engagement, history departments can meaningfully support students by cultivating inclusive, responsive and relational learning environments.'

International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We're delighted to welcome @yorkisthistory.bsky.social to the IMC Bookfair in 2026! Come along and see what they have to offer in Parkinson Court during the Congress. #IMC2026 #Medieval #MedievalSky #Leeds #Skystorians

Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📻 Prof Helen Fulton (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) joins BBC Radio 4 #InOurTime to discuss the impact of the Norman invasion on the people and land of Wales with Dr Rhun Emlyn, Emeritus Prof Huw Pryce & Misha Glenny Listen to the full programme 👉 brnw.ch/21x2S1i @bristolcms.bsky.social

Dr Richard Asquith @richardasquith.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Apply for a Dobson #Scholarship to attend this year’s Harlaxton #Medieval Symposium by Sunday! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Dr Richard Asquith@richardasquith.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨We have extended the deadline for applications for the Dobson #Scholarships for the 2026 Harlaxton #Medieval Symposium! 🚨 Open to PGRs whose work relates to the theme of the Symposium, they cover all conference and accommodation fees. Apply by 31 May: harlaxtonmedievalsymposium.org/scholarships...